Depression is a bore, a sulky, overweight, useless bore. Especially when it drags on week after week. I miss writing with a passion that almost consumes me, but still feel unable to continue with my latest book. The dreariness of my mind and the exhaustion of my body prevent me from concentrating on the one thing that makes my life exuberant. It is a terrible sensation opening the Word document, already covered in...

From my home it takes a good fifty minutes to get to the tunnel that runs under one of the busiest, commercialised rivers of the world at the heart of a country called Holland. When I arrive at the tunnel, I have almost reached my destination. What awaits me after I have driven through the ghastly-lit, yellow-tiled tube is terrible. Yet, I make the trip every day. Although the tunnel splits my life in two,...

This is the first time for me to use speech recognition (Dragon Naturally 13) for my writing. I must say this is an exciting new adventure, which I hope will help me to break through my writer’s block. Because that I’ve lately been suffering from writer’s block is a fact. I hate myself when I’m unable to write; I hate that bleak life, in which the words won’t come and I feel alienated from myself. Staring at the...

As a new ALLi member I come across so many ideas I’ve never considered before but that help me to find my feet in the self-publishing industry. Sometimes – most times actually – all the helpful info confuses me, as the seasoned members talk of stuff I’ve never heard of. More about that in later posts as I dissect the info bit by bit. First and foremost, the issue of buying or not buying your...

Last week coming home from a business trip related to my paid job, as usual rather exhausted and drained, I was very happy to find three new reviews for my historical novels on Amazon. Two 5 reviews and one 4 for Ingrid and The Blood Red Nails of War. Here’s the new review for Blood Red. A Tale of Youthful Souls Who Briefly Collide but are Destined to Meet Again – Well Worth the Read I have just...